Whether you feel it's an insufferable earworm or a timeless bop, one thing's for certain: Aqua's song "Barbie Girl" is one of the bestselling pop singles of all time. On the surface, what the international chart-topping song is about seems obvious: Those beloved titans of the toy industry, Barbie dolls. That reference to Barbie even got Aqua in trouble in the early s with Mattel, Barbie's copyright holders, uDiscoverMusic reports.
It looked like a big, round ball. The meaning behind the song might not be what you think. It's not an ode to being tall, blonde, and beautiful β unrealistic body ideals the Barbie doll line is sometimes criticized for promoting. You don't necessarily have to have plastic surgeries to be a better person.
In the lyrics of the song, there's some sexual content, but Dif insists it's all tongue-n-cheek. That was the main thing we discussed.
We didn't say it very often, but that was the main thing behind it. The music video for Aqua's "Barbie Girl" is probably almost as iconic as the song and likely remembered by anyone who knows the smash hit. During the Rolling Stone interview, director Peder Pedersen revealed how he got the offer for the job a day after hearing the song on the radio for the first time. The video's use of color is not unlike the "Barbie" movie β something Pedersen called a "cartoonish What kind of props does she have?
Well, she has a house, a car, a horse, a hair dryer, a telephone, a dog And we had a timeline saying, 'Barbie does a lot of things, and it ends in a party. Though the video was storyboarded, Aqua and the actors who played Ken and Barbie improvised parts. Mads Tagel, who played Ken, said they didn't rehearse. And because of the setting, the whole thing had this weird vibe that Lisbeth and I just leaned into β just trying to have fun, because an hour before we were lying on the couch watching a movie.
